A Bitter Wind (signed)

Benn, James R.

ISBN 10: 1641296461 / ISBN 13: 9781641296465

Published by Soho Crime, New York, 2025

About this Item

1st edition hardcover in fine condition in fine dust jacket - signed by the author on the title page - Billy Boyle WWII novel set in winter of 1944 - new, unread copy.

Seller Inventory # msh9680

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Bitter Wind (signed)
• Publisher: Soho Crime, New York
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1641296461
• ISBN 13: 9781641296465
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • signed mystery a-f

About this title

Synopsis

To solve a murder at an English airbase, US Army Captain Billy Boyle must immerse himself in the fascinating and secretive world of WWII radio espionage.

Christmas Day 1944: After his last mission put him in the tailspin of the Battle of the Bulge, Captain Billy Boyle travels to southeast England to visit his girlfriend, Diana Seaton, for a brief holiday respite. Diana is engaged in classified work at RAF Hawkinge, including Operation Corona, which recruits German-speaking Women’s Auxiliary Air Force members—many of them Jewish refugees from the Kindertransport rescue—to countermand German orders and direct night fighters away from Allied bombers.

It’s fascinating and critical espionage work, but it’s laced with peril, as Billy finds out. On a scenic Christmas walk along the White Cliffs of Dover, Billy and Diana stumble upon the dead body of a US Air Force officer. In the dead man’s pocket are papers with highly confidential information. Information worth killing over? Billy’s investigation brings him from the fascinating world of airbase codebreakers to war-torn Yugoslavia, where he must rescue an escaped POW who may be the only person who knows the truth.

About the Author

James R. Benn is the author of the Billy Boyle World War II mysteries. The debut, Billy Boyle, was selected as a Top Five Book of the Year by Book Sense and was a Dilys Award nominee, A Blind Goddess was longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, The Rest Is Silence was a Barry Award nominee, and The Devouring was a Macavity Award nominee. Benn, a former librarian, lives on the Gulf Coast of Florida with his wife, Deborah Mandel.